Outlaw Chronicles Books in Order
Part ofAngus Donald Books in OrderSee the Outlaw Chronicles by Angus Donald in order, with Robin Hood book summaries, timeline notes, and a clear guide to where to start.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Outlaw
by Angus Donald
2009
Caught stealing in Nottingham, young Alan Dale flees into Sherwood and falls in with Robin Hood’s brutal outlaw band. Robin becomes his protector and teacher, but the same man could kill him if he steps out of line.
Holy Warrior
by Angus Donald
2010
In 1190, Robin Hood and Alan Dale ride east with Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade. As the army grinds toward the Holy Land, a hidden enemy inside Robin’s own camp is waiting to strike.
King's Man
by Angus Donald
2011
When Richard the Lionheart is captured on his journey home, Robin Hood and Alan Dale are drawn into a desperate rescue. Their mission carries them across a dangerous Europe of prisons, politics, and hired killers.
Warlord
by Angus Donald
2012
Richard is back in Normandy, waging hard war against Philip of France, and Robin fights at his side. Meanwhile Alan follows a personal trail of vengeance, hunting the man behind his father’s murder deep in enemy territory.
Grail Knight
by Angus Donald
2013
Alan’s home and family are under threat, and his wife is close to death. Robin leads him on a perilous hunt for the Holy Grail, with renegade Templars and old enemies closing in from every side.
The Betrayal of Father Tuck
by Angus Donald
2013
With Robin and his men away on crusade, Marie-Anne must hold Kirkton Castle against danger at home. Father Tuck is beside her, but the siege tests loyalty, nerve, and the thin line between faith and survival.
The Hostility of Hanno
by Angus Donald
2013
Wounded after battle in the Holy Land, Alan Dale finds little peace in recovery. In the hospital at Acre he meets the fierce German soldier Hanno, and their hostile first encounter changes the series from there on.
The Rise of Robin Hood
by Angus Donald
2013
Before Alan Dale enters the story, young Robin Odo and Little John are still finding their feet in Sherwood. This short prequel follows their first bold robbery and the early making of the outlaw legend.
The Iron Castle
by Angus Donald
2014
In 1203, King John turns to Robin Hood as Normandy begins to collapse under French attack. Robin and Alan must help hold Château Gaillard, the great fortress that stands between England and total defeat.
The King's Assassin
by Angus Donald
2015
As King John squeezes England for money and power, rebellion gathers around Magna Carta. Robin and Alan are swept into civil war and a deadly plot that could bring the king, and the realm, crashing down.
The Death of Robin Hood
by Angus Donald
2016
England is at war again after Magna Carta, and French forces enter the fight as Robin and Alan choose where they stand. This final main volume turns the old legend of Robin’s last days into one more brutal campaign.
Robin Hood and the Caliph's Gold
by Angus Donald
2020
Shipwrecked on Crete while returning from the Third Crusade, Robin and his men are stranded far from home. Robin answers disaster with an audacious heist, but pirates, local tyrants, and enemy soldiers close in fast.
Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones
by Angus Donald
2020
On the journey home from the Holy Land, Robin Hood and Alan Dale are caught in the bloody politics of Burgundy. Alan’s attempt to rescue a young woman leads him toward treachery, murder, and the sinister Castle of Bones.
Robin Hood and the Heretic Prince
by Angus Donald
2025
A botched robbery drives Robin Hood and Alan Dale out of Sherwood and into southern France. There they are swept into the Albigensian Crusade and forced to defend people condemned as heretics by the Church.
Series background & context
The Outlaw Chronicles takes the Robin Hood legend and drags it back into the mud, blood, and politics of the late 12th and early 13th centuries. This is not a neat, cheerful ballad version of Robin. Donald’s Robin is a hard man, dangerous, charismatic, and often frightening, more gang leader than folk saint. The books are told largely through the eyes of Alan Dale, who begins as a young thief and grows into Robin’s closest ally, and that choice gives the whole series its human scale.
That change in perspective matters.
Because Alan is the one who watches Robin up close, the books are full of admiration, fear, loyalty, and second thoughts all at once. He is not looking at a statue or a legend. He is trying to survive the company of a brutal outlaw who can protect him one moment and threaten him the next. That tension gives the early books, especially Outlaw and Holy Warrior, much of their bite.
The setting starts in Sherwood and Nottinghamshire, with all the familiar names you would expect, Little John, Father Tuck, Will Scarlet, the sheriff, but it does not stay there for long. As the series goes on, Robin and Alan are pulled into the larger politics of the Angevin world. They ride on the Third Crusade, cross France and the Holy Land, get mixed up in Burgundy and Normandy, and later find themselves caught in the struggles around King John, Magna Carta, and civil war. The books keep one foot in legend and the other in the real violence of medieval power.
What links them all is the relationship at the center. Robin changes from outlaw chief to nobleman and war leader, but he never becomes safe or tidy. Alan changes too, from half-starved boy on the run into a seasoned fighter and witness to history. Around them gather a strong supporting cast, loyal men, wary wives, priests, mercenaries, and enemies who usually have good reasons to hate them. Even when the backdrop gets bigger, the series keeps coming back to friendship, duty, resentment, and the cost of staying beside someone larger than life.
The tone is fast, gritty historical adventure. There are sieges, ambushes, crusades, robberies, rescues, and political betrayals, but the books are never only about action. Donald is clearly interested in what happens when legends are forced to live inside real history, with mud on their boots and compromise in their hearts.
The short pieces fit neatly into that larger sweep. The Rise of Robin Hood, The Hostility of Hanno, and The Betrayal of Father Tuck fill in corners of the timeline and deepen the world rather than feeling like add-ons. If you want a Robin Hood series with speed, menace, and a strong sense that these people are making their way through a dangerous age, this is what you should expect.
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